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Tears, exuberance as Black Panther opens across Africa

Choice two: We modernize by becoming westernized and forgetting our cultural traditions which, by their very nature so we think, are stuck in the past. Related News
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As the audience poured out of the Johannesburg screening, spirits were high. We’re struggling to find leaders that are exemplary and role models … so when you see the Black Panther as a young boy and he takes off that mask you think, ‘Oh my God, he looks like me. “Tears stream down my face as I write this,” said one Facebook user who goes by LadyRock Maranatha. “Totally blown away. president’s views, which several African nations have openly scorned. As the red carpet in South Africa swirled with stunning outfits and exclamations in the local isiXhosa language used in the film’s Wakanda kingdom, cast member John Kani laughed at the U.S. “This time the sun now is shining on Africa,” he said. “Now I know Black Panther makes Africa look cool … But please don’t come to Lagos … It’s overcrowded,” Nigerian artist Arinze Stanley tweeted of the continent’s most populous city. “Moviegoers are enjoying the African heritage part of the film. The experience of the Wakanda people teaches us otherwise.”
In Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Black Panther has been selling out its five-times-a-day screenings at the only theater showing the film. Now we can look up to some person who is African.’”
Added actress Danai Gurira, who grew up mostly in Zimbabwe, “To bring this film home is everything.”
The film has opened in other top economic powers across Africa, where a growing middle class flocked to IMAX showings and shared vibrant opening-night images on social media. “An African-American coming back to Africa, it’s a nice reminder of their heritage as well,” said Ayanda Sidzatane. I got emotional,” said reality TV star Blue Mbombo, who admitted that going into the film she thought the expectations had been “hype.” But she praised its use of cultural touches like Basotho blankets and called the use of the Xhosa language “very humbling.”
Others considered the American side of the story. “Choice one: We maintain our traditions and cultures and stay backward forever. “Black Panther was basically an enormous. “There are people who changed their flight plans just to watch the movie.”
Some Ethiopian fans quickly changed their Facebook profile pictures and expressed their adoration. As Ghanaian celebrity blogger Ameyaw Debrah put it on social media: “What will #BlackPanther make the world think of Africa now?”
For all the latest Entertainment News, download Indian Express App He is African and I am African. roller coaster of emotions, adventure and most of all the affirmation of what I had felt since I left my country for Cambridge and came back. (Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o said simply: “No comment.”)
The South African actor Kani, like many at Friday night’s Johannesburg premiere, expressed pride at seeing an Afrofuturistic society that celebrates traditional cultures and dreams of what the world’s second most populous continent can be. She called the film awesome. “I can watch it again and again.”
“Black Panther” screened a few days ago in Kenya’s western city of Kisumu, where Nyong’o’s father, Anyang, is the local governor. “This movie came at the right time. This is also unique for us because Ethiopia is often mentioned alongside the black power and black movements as the only nation not colonized by Western powers,” said Elias Abraha, the cinema’s operations chief. “We knew it would be cool but not like this.”
Some anticipated a flood of interest from African-Americans, even cheekily. I totally love it,” said Liz Muthoni after a screening in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. 2018-02-18T10:36:07+00:00″>
Published: February 18, 2018 10:36 am

Black Panther has burst onto the screen in Africa, handing a powerful response to the unfortunate remarks about the continent by President Donald Trump. “Sometimes we think that we have two choices to make in Africa,” he wrote this month in The Star newspaper. “The African culture highlighted in the movie is so rich that it makes me feel proud of being black.